The Shadow's Edge
2025 · Action · Crime
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Film / 1963
The Mind Benders
Directed by
Basil Dearden
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
The story
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Cast
Dirk BogardeDr. Henry Laidlaw Longman
Mary UreOonagh Longman
John ClementsMajor Hall
Michael BryantDr. Danny Tate
Wendy CraigAnnabella
Harold GoldblattProfessor Sharpey
Geoffrey KeenCalder
Terry PalmerNorman
Norman BirdAubrey
Terence AlexanderRowing Coach (uncredited)
Grace ArnoldTrain Passenger (uncredited)
Timothy BeatonPaul Longman (uncredited)
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Elizabeth CounsellGirl Student on Station (uncredited)
Roger DelgadoDr. Jean Bonvoulois (uncredited)
Ian DewarCrowd Ringleader (uncredited)
Geoffrey DentonTrain Guard (uncredited)
Ashik Devello2nd Indian Student (uncredited)
Terence Edmond1st Student at Party (uncredited)
Christopher EllisPeers Longman (uncredited)
Edward FoxStewart (uncredited)
Imogen HassallStudent (uncredited)
Robin HawdonStudent (uncredited)
Georgina MoonPersephone Longman (uncredited)
Edward PalmerPorter (uncredited)
Philip RayFather (uncredited)
Renu Setna1st Indian Student (uncredited)
Anthony SingletonBoy Student on Station (uncredited)
Teresa Van HoornPenny Longman ( uncredited)
David WestonStudent at Party (uncredited)
Pauline WinterMother (uncredited)
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